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Blinken: US began supplying Ukraine with weapons even before the war

04 January 2025 18:44 (UTC +04:00)

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has announced that his country had been supplying weapons to the Kiev authorities even before the war in Ukraine broke out, he said this in an interview with The New York Times, APA reports.

"If you look at the trajectory of the conflict, because we saw it coming, we were able to make sure that not only were we prepared and allies and partners were prepared, but that Ukraine was prepared. We made sure that well before the Russian aggression happened, starting in September and then again December, we quietly got a lot of weapons to Ukraine to make sure that they had in hand what they needed to defend themselves, things like Stingers, Javelins that were instrumental in preventing Russia from taking Kyiv, from rolling over the country, erasing it from the map, and indeed pushing the Russians back," he underscored.